Atlanta City Council revives plot to outsmart geese

Canada geese. They’re loud. They’re ornery. They’re pooping in our water provide!

• Don’t concern. Metropolis Corridor is right here.

Driving the information: Tuesday, the Atlanta Metropolis Council’s utilities committee gave its blessing to resume the $157,550 contract with an organization that focuses on humanely shooing away geese.

Catch up fast: For years, giant populations of Canada geese have been squatting at Atlanta’s water amenities.

In 2013, the division of watershed administration’s summer season interns proposed putting in 50 decoys to thrust back the geese.

• Sorry, interns, however the geese noticed via that trick.

Subsequent, the town employed Sandy Springs-based Atlanta Animal Eviction Inc. to go to amenities a number of occasions every week.

• The geese police switched up the occasions they’d go to as soon as the birds discovered the schedule, deputy commissioner Quinton Fletcher informed the committee.

The anti-geese recreation plan: A spokesperson for Mayor Andre Dickens says the contractor makes use of “non-lethal strategies“ to take away geese. “As soon as the geese are secured, they’re launched into their pure habitat 50 miles from our amenities,” the spokesperson mentioned.

Of word: Geese can fly again.

What they’re saying: “What’s good for the goose is sweet for the gander,” council member Dustin Hillis mentioned earlier than shifting to approve the contract renewal.